Every command of Jesus is an invitation. Jesus invites us to healthy, full, abundant lives – our whole person full of .

With an intensity that is difficult for us to truly believe, Jesus wants us blessed. And blessing comes from having a .
(Mt. 6:22-23)

Everything we long for, everything we hope for – beyond what we can think or imagine – is the promise of we have when we have trusted our lives to follow Jesus.

is the essence of all we are grateful for.

A good eye is grateful.

A good eye focuses on what I have in every arena of life with gratitude and before I focus on what I don’t have. (1 Thes. 5:18)

Every person I know acknowledges that I have so much to be grateful for yet gratitude doesn’t come .

Gratitude is flat out good for us. But it doesn’t just happen, especially in our culture. It has to be and . (Phil. 4:6-7)